holdem.ro forum

[deepak]

Please review Holdem.ro forum

Cheers

[Joe Ward]

It might be hard to rank for "Daniel Negreanu", as you are doing here in your signature. Two reasons. Reason one, as one of the top guys in the poker world, you will likely discover a lot of competition in the search market for him.

The 2nd reason is that you are pointing the link to your homepage. You would do much better creating a separate page about him, creating the content, and then linking directly that page instead.

Also instead of focusing on just his name, you might find something about him that people may search for that has less competition such as:

"Daniel Negreanu in Canada", or "Pictures of Daniel Negreanu and his girlfriend", or "how Negreanu reads people in Holdem".

Note: I did not actually see a sub-forum for "top poker players", "WSOP winners", etc. I also did not see any sub-forums for any of the individual guys. If you want to rank for them, you have to create and encourage users to create new content for them.

Your site title needs work too. You should almost never include your "domain name" in the site title. Give the site an actual title other than just the domain. Even if you just removed .ru, you would be doing better already.

Your logo looks ok. But I'd like to see a custom color scheme for your full template, and perhaps bring 2 to 3 nice sharp colors into your theme. The poker table or even watching poker on TV is always a very colorful experience, starting with the green table felt, chips, and then the clothing of the players themselves contrasting with it. The people who visit your forum will be poker enthusiasts, and they'll be familiar with (and comfortable in) that type of environment. Remind them of it at your site, and you may be able to get them to stick around and participate a little more.

I do not like welcome messages that are default and linking to a meaningless FAQ page.

I would set your option to "replace showpost with permalink" on your thread pages.

You should remove your "site title" from appearing in your thread page titles, to promote better long tail optimization.

You should consider the new vBSEO style for your site, once it is released. It will be available to our customers for free, and I think it will be a great starting point for your site.

If you are interested in a custom logo, let me know. I have a contact that I use for graphics work that I can refer you to.

[deepak]

Hey. Thanks

Just now my holdem.ro/forum PR went from 3 to 0.

The things I've done: updated vbseo and sitemap g. Removing a section and adding another. Purchasing branding removal for vb and vbseo. Thats it :/

My site also dropped from PR4 to PR2.

2 possible reasons: hostgator making me alot of problems so the site is up only 80% of the time.
Had a page witch I removed and added a subdomain on that subject. Last days I added a redirect from that old page to the new subdomain.

[Joe Ward]

Down time is not going to help you. What are the issues?